Tranzo, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Amerpoort, Baarn, The Netherlands.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2022 Nov;35(6):1307-1316. doi: 10.1111/jar.13019. Epub 2022 Jun 20.
High-quality, affective relationships are built on meaningful moments of interaction, which are challenging for support staff to establish with people with profound intellectual disabilities. Therefore, we explored what makes a moment of interaction meaningful to support staff and what circumstances facilitate meaningful moments of interaction taking place.
Five direct support staff took part in unstructured, in-depth interviews. The interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Member checks were also conducted.
Support staff experienced moments of interaction as meaningful because they felt a connection with a person with profound intellectual disabilities and/or they had the feeling of being meaningful for this person. Staff-related and contextual circumstances facilitating meaningful moments of interaction to take place were described.
Meaningful moments of interaction are highly valued by support staff, who believe these moments are valued by persons with profound intellectual disabilities as well. Implications for daily practice are described.
高质量、有情感的关系建立在有意义的互动时刻之上,而这对于支持人员来说,与患有严重智力障碍的人建立这种关系具有挑战性。因此,我们探讨了是什么让互动时刻对支持人员有意义,以及什么情况下有助于有意义的互动时刻发生。
五名直接支持人员参加了非结构化的深入访谈。使用解释性现象学分析(IPA)对访谈进行了分析。同时也进行了成员检查。
支持人员认为互动时刻有意义,是因为他们感受到了与患有严重智力障碍的人之间的联系,或者他们觉得自己对这个人有意义。描述了有利于有意义的互动时刻发生的与员工相关的和背景相关的情况。
支持人员非常重视有意义的互动时刻,他们认为这些时刻也受到患有严重智力障碍的人的重视。描述了对日常实践的影响。